Drexel University Launches DragonFire Magazine

Posted on July 15, 2005

Drexel University's Pennoni Honors College has launched DragonFire, a bi-weekly online publication. The publication features columns by experts in their field, articles from reporters stationed around the world and translations of requested articles. DragonFire says it is working with more than 100 established print, radio and video journalists, graphic artists and photographers from 30 countries.

DragonFire also offers the audio of original articles and their translations in eight languages. Readers can listen to authors read their submissions via clicking on mp3 links. Under the Drexel-DragonFire Translation Cooperative a group of Drexel student volunteers whose second language is English will translate submissions into various languages including Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Hindi, Greek and Turkish.

Dr. Mark Greenberg, dean of the Pennoni Honors College brought in Amy Webb, former Newsweek and Wall Street Journal reporter, to help develop the free online publication. A native of Chicago, Webb traveled to China and later settled in Japan during the 1990s. She served as a writer for The Indianapolis Star, the Asian Wall Street Journal and Newsweek, and has contributed to a number of publications including The New York Times, the Economist.com, Glamour and Yoga International. She speaks fluent Japanese and some Mandarin Chinese.